UK's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak detached the digital arm of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Now, a new streamlined department will solely focus on Culture, Media and Sport, and will be headed up by Lucy Frazer.
Conservative MP for South East Cambridgeshire, Lucy Frazer was first elected in May 2015, and served on the Education Select Committee.
MP Frazer also served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 2021, having previously been appointed as Solicitor General, Minister of State for Prisons and Probations, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice (January 2018 - May 2019) and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice as well as the Paymaster General and Minister to the Cabinet Office.
This past year, Frazer was the Minister of State in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and spent six weeks as the Minister of State at the Department for Transport during the political turbulence that was autumn 2022.
Prior to becoming an MP, Lucy Frazer practised as a barrister and was appointed as Queen's Counsel in 2013. She decided to go into politics because she wanted to make a difference, “I am simply someone who has been lucky in her professional career who feels it is important to contribute to society,” she said.
Dare we hope that one of the contributions Lucy Frazer can make as she contributes to a fairer future is the need to amend the Musems Act of 1963? It is an old act, and Greece's just request for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles is never going to go away.
Countless UK Culture Secretaries have failed to do anything to amend the Museums Act of 1963.
The peerless collection of sculptures, the surviving Parthenon Marbles, divided mainly between two great museums of the world, already garner global respect, and UNESCO's too.
We are all, still waiting for the UK to facilitate the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles.
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